James Norton Quotes

I'll never forget travelling to New Zealand for three months to make the 'Underworld' films - that was pretty special.

I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.

I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free.

I always wanted to be part of a movie that creates a different world.

When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.

As an actor, as much as I'm interested in how you make movies and TV shows, even as a kid, I've always hated making of featurettes and special features on DVDs. I think it breaks the spell.

You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.

You have to realize I like doing big movies that appear on a big screen. So the visuals and the audio have to be of a certain quality before I start to get excited about the thing.

The Japanese, despite the trade deficit and their ability to build fabulous automobiles, still think that a guy in a monster suit is all that is needed for a monster movie.

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue.

Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe.

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've had on a movie set.

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

I can't imagine a more profoundly exciting experience than I had working on 'Avatar.' And whether I'm ever part of it again, I'll always be very proud that I was a part of it.

Everything about doing 'Jurassic World' was a dream come true.

People regard CGI as a gimmick; they almost blame CGI for a bad story or a bad script. They talk about CGI as if it's responsible for a drop in standards.

When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.

Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'